Contest for Tribune Trip Stirs Weld County Chief Candidates
The Tribune offers a year long subscription prize plan for a popular lady winner in Weld County. Subscriptions earn credits: five per coupon, 500 for a new yearly, 250 for six months, 200 credits per old subscriber payment, and 20 credits per want ad with cash. The top credits winner from Greeley and the top outside candidate win round trip travel and the contest includes a Greeley souvenir book.
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Tribune World’s Fair contest aims to send two ladies from Greeley
The Tribune’s World’s Fair contest rewards credit submission by readers to send two or more ladies to St Louis next summer. Winners receive railroad and Pullman fare round trip from Greeley, $3 daily spending money for fourteen days, and additional pay per new subscriber secured.
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Passing of Cattle Barons in West Signals Farming Rise
An obituary of the S. L. W. ranch era notes western cattle barons fading as farming expands. It details acres owned and leased, the main home ranch with modern amenities, the large barn and corrals, and the shift from longhorn stock to blooded cattle suited to a farming era in northern Colorado.
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Ogilvie
Seely
Windsor Boom Brings New Buildings and Business Changes
Windsor experiences a building surge after the sugar factory season. Two two story brick blocks rise on main street for a bowling alley barbershop and a furniture store. Roy Ray advances a new office plant while Ferguson Morrow buys Briggs mercantile. Harry Kawin converts the Alamo hotel into a dry goods and clothing store.
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F. N. Briggs
Harry Kawin
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Alamo Hotel
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H. P. Shhaefer
Fight Renewed Over Poudre Valley Reservoir Water Rights
The ongoing dispute between reservoir and ditch companies in the Poudre valley escalated as Fort Collins Irrigation Superintendent John L. Armstrong received a Division Engineer order to shut headgates, while Larimer County Judge Bennett issued a restraining order delaying closures. Fossil Creek reservoir also sought a court injunction. A merits hearing was set for Fort Collins, with authorities claiming direct irrigation needs and opposing claims that upstream reservoirs store Platte water.
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Bennett
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Poudre
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Platte
Island Park Driving Club Opens at Island Grove Park
The city council granted permission to use Island Grove park for a speedway and baseball grounds. Surveyors laid out a half mile track and workers graded the course. A club meeting elected M. H. Morgan president W. R. Patterson secretary and George Van Sickle treasurer and renamed the group The Island Park Driving Club and Baseball Association.
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Governor's Special to World’s Fair to Run on Missouri Pacific
H. 3 B. Kooser and S. W Bradford of the Missouri Pacific say the governor’s special to the World’s Fair will depart Denver on April 27. The consist includes a baggage car, a day coach, a diner, two sleepers, a rear combination sleeper and observation car. They call it the finest special ever run on any road in America.
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Greeley
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Stanton Men Visit Greeley on Platteville Business
James Stanton and his son James H. of Platteville were in Greeley Saturday for business purposes.
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Greeley
Real Soldiers Reach Greely In Largest Camped Show Yet
The Second Battalion, Second Infantry, U S A, four companies under Captain Preston Brown, arrived in Greely after a march from Fort Russell Cheyenne. They then moved through town Sunday morning on foot toward Fort Logan for further stationing and practice marching.
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